… making the total time, from your office to his office, 185 minutes if you fly. That’s 3 hours and 5 minutes.

Uh …

Now, Amtrak’s schedule from Philly to DC is an hour and 35 minutes. It takes you five minutes to get from your office to 30thStreet Station. You only have to wait five minutes for the train and it’s maybe a 10-minute walk to Longworth from the station in Washington.

Uh …

So, office to office, the train takes an hour-and-55-minutes. But, by plane, it takes three hours plus.

Well, OK, you have a point, but …

For business class on the Acela — Philly to DC — I paid $131. Let me ask: what’d it cost you to fly?